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How would plants that moved like animals change the world?

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Think stuff like plant only pokemon, Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy), veggie pygmies (D&D), etc

How would people react to the fact that a vast majority of their veggies and fruits being much more mobile (or potentially so) than they are now?

Keep in mind that just because something is mobile, doesn't necessarily mean it's sentient in the traditional sense of the word, it simply means that it is able to move under its own power.

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Farming would look a lot more like herding. This would be interesting because you could drive your crops to market, let them out to pasture, etc.

Picturing cropboys driving potatoes from Idaho to the rail head in Kansas to ship back east.

Or the famines caused when the corn just decides it wants to migrate south.

Another big change would be problems with wandering trees going where you don't want them, tripping, taking out power lines, walking into traffic...

So yeah, the world would be a different place, but not all bad.

Also, check out sea anemones, which have both plant and animal DNA, and kind of fit what you're talking about.

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